Yesterday saw the launch of Sqlmap, an open source vulnerability testing tool that can automatically detect and exploit SQL injection flaws for the takeover of database servers. It’s a potentially ...

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An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

While different security researchers may haggle over the exact ranking of SQL injection attacks compared to other common maladies, such as XSS and CSRF, few would deny that SQLi and its other ...

Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support for ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. SQL injection attacks have been around for more than 10 years. Database security experts know they ...

I'm in the process of documenting the many ways in which an application is terrible. One of those ways is that it's vulnerable to SQL injection. It's not completely open, but you can manipulate a few ...

The huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks and could finally push retailers to deal with Web application security flaws. This week’s ...